stay away does this Elephant Seal bull wanted to tell me while i was crawling up to him . Image taken on South Georgia in Fortuna Bay , an amazing place and experience for me that i want to do again one day .
Canon EOS 1D MK IV
EF 70 - 200 at 105 mm
HH
F 10 ; Iso 1250 ; 1/250sec ; man exp .
Processed with DPP 4 and PS CC , cropped for comp
Thanks for watching and commenting to my previous thread , all C&C are most welcome .
Hi Andreas, would love to get the chance to photograph these guys, can't believe you managed at such close quarters too.
Great detail and you did well not to get the BKG running through the nose, not easy with them moving around and in the heat of the moment. Was the reason for the IV the crop factor or that the 70-200 was on that body? Always like this low POV, just give a better relationship between subject & viewer IMHO. Any portrait with more tighter in on the head and open mouth, like this? Fishy breath I bet.
Thanks Steve for your feedback ,
MK IV was my prime body by that time , other option was the MK III so no better option from cam POV .
No tighter portrait with open mouth just closed mouth and half closed eyes , falling asleep while i was close to him flat on the ground . No fishy breath ,because wind is always blowing down south and the wind did not come from behind him .
Actually i was not meant with that warning , was the other bull who was parked , right next to me on RHS.
Hi Andreas - Great low pov and dof works to have all of seal in focus and habitat in bg recognizable. I think he was telling you that you had to pay him a few fish as a modeling fee.
I see your "model" bit his tongue at some stage-what did you say to him?:)
I like this, great POV and detail as well as tonality, subject pops beautifully against that lovely BG - you'll have to take us there one day, pretty please?
Thanks Gabriela and Sanjeev for your kind comments .
Gabriela it wasn´t me with the tongue by saying something , i guess it was the smell of my grey socks placed right below his mouth ( cloned them out ) that made him chew his tongue , sorry Mr Seal with hindsight .
I would like to take you , but i cannot take you there on my own we would have to book one of this fancy and quite expensive trips , at the moment it will be impossible for me cause of our dropping Euro , making all more expensive . But who knows in the future .
Thanks Dumay for your comment , actually these big guys can be very fast at short distance , on that trip i have seen folks jumping away from two fighting bulls leaving their gear ( tripod with long lens attached ) behind , they got lucky that the bulls did not ran over the gear . So and i was lying flat on the ground fully dressed up with a lot layers of clothes and more or less unable to move normally . So if this guy wanted to go for me , i could have been in trouble . At some stage the beaches have been full of seals and we got chased a number of times , the most kack caused the very territorial Antarctic Fur seal bulls they ran really after you , i saw folks defending themselves with their tripods .